-
News
Microsoft announced this week that the Azure Security Center management portal now works with the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to ensure the security of Docker containers running on Linux systems or virtual machines.
03/25/2020
-
News
Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp. and Microsoft on Friday described their collaboration on mapping the immune system's response to threats, including the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) threat.
03/20/2020
-
Posey's Tips & Tricks
Brien answers some common questions related to Hyper-V's SET capability, from how to configure virtual machines to use SET to determining your load balancing algorithm.
03/19/2020
-
N2WS, a provider of backup and recovery solutions for Amazon Web Services (AWS), announced the general availability of N2WS Backup and Recovery 3.0 this week.
03/18/2020
-
Posey's Tips & Tricks
Switch embedded teaming is to Hyper-V what NIC teaming was to Windows Server 2012, though it never got the same level of hype. For those new to SET, Brien gives an overview of what the feature does and why it's so useful.
03/17/2020
-
News
Microsoft on Wednesday announced a public preview of a Backup Reports capability that's accessible from the Azure Portal.
03/04/2020
-
News
Applications that use IBM Power processors in "on-premises" datacenters can now be moved to Microsoft Azure datacenters via a "Skytap on Azure" service, according to Thursday announcements by both Microsoft and Skytap.
02/27/2020
-
News
Microsoft this month announced that its free Mover cloud-to-cloud migration tool is "now available to Microsoft 365 customers worldwide."
02/25/2020
-
News
Microsoft announced that its Azure Sphere solutions for Internet of Things (IoT) devices have reached the "general availability" (GA) commercial-release stage.
02/24/2020
-
Posey's Tips & Tricks
To test the Windows 10X emulator, Brien needed to figure out how to configure Hyper-V to run on a Windows 10 virtual machine. Here's how he made it work.
02/24/2020
-
News
Google's Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory is now a "generally available" service, according to a Thursday Google announcement.
02/21/2020
-
Fresh off its acquisition by Insight Partners last month, Veeam is now rolling out what it's calling "the biggest release" in the company's history.
02/19/2020
-
Posey's Tips & Tricks
Natively integrated into Windows Server, the Best Practices Analyzer is a key tool for assessing how much (or how little) your Hyper-V configurations align with Microsoft's recommendations.
02/13/2020
-
Posey's Tips & Tricks
While Hyper-V doesn't have a tool that controls the order in which VMs boot up, there are some workarounds available, some of them involving PowerShell.
02/11/2020
-
News
The biggest cloud security issue plaguing organizations is misconfigurations, according to the National Security Agency (NSA), which recently published a security report titled "Mitigating Cloud Vulnerabilities."
02/05/2020
-
News
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that its Backup Explorer tool for Azure services is available as a preview.
02/05/2020
-
News
Google is now previewing Kubernetes orchestration support for Windows Server containers housed on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), according to a Thursday announcement.
01/31/2020
-
Microsoft beat Wall Street expectations on revenues and earnings in second quarter results released Wednesday after the close of markets.
01/29/2020
-
News
Microsoft's Azure cloud platform has been making inroads against competitors Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in terms of job availability and interest.
01/24/2020
-
Posey's Tips & Tricks
Don't cut corners when it comes to protecting Office 365 data, Brien warns.
01/22/2020
-
Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft's preferred interface for Windows Server is Windows Admin Center, but can it really replace Hyper-V Manager for managing virtual machines? Brien compares the two management tools.
01/20/2020
-
News
Microsoft this week published additional help resources for organizations stuck on Windows Server 2008, which fell out of support on Jan. 14.
01/17/2020
-
News
Microsoft on Thursday announced a corporatewide carbon reduction effort that aims to make the company "carbon negative" by 2030.
01/16/2020
-
The two companies are joining forces to provide datacenter storage that can handle the increasing demands of modern networks.
01/14/2020
-
Posey's Tips & Tricks
For better or worse, the next 10 years will bring more intelligent devices to more areas of our daily lives. From the proliferation of AI to what that means for user privacy, here are Brien's tech predictions for 2020 and beyond.
01/02/2020